Gropius Architecture Quotes & Sayings

There, there, dear, we're sorry that you'll keep on being you. It's rotten, but what are the choices...? — A. L. Kennedy

My mother and grandmother ... they were my first muses. The way they dressed and carried themselves was an education in elegance. They defined the word. — Christian Cota

I am you and you are me. We are alone, but not alone. We are trapped by time, but also infinite. Made of flesh, but also stars. — Matt Haig

Architecture begins where engineering ends. — Walter Gropius

Being a high school teacher was wonderful, but unsustainable: I needed a way out. — Garth Greenwell

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith. — Walter Gropius

The knack is art. — Jean Cocteau

What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled. — Horace

The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting. — Walter Gropius

Most of the time you need something to fight against. If something is bothering me, then the only way to get past it is to work through it. — Fiona Apple

And in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it isn't there. It's just waiting for the right time to show itself. — Emma Hart

In a revolutionary epoch, sometimes men taste every novelty, sicken of them all, and return to ancient principles so long disused that they seem refreshingly hearty when they are rediscovered. — Russell Kirk

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community. — Alex Grey

Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business. — Bruce Barton

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. — Michael Graves

In every decision we make and in every policy we develop, we are committed to protecting those who cannot protect themselves ... the very young and the very old. — Mike Rounds

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy. — Walter Gropius

There are some who'd say she hadn't known him long enough to be affected. I knew better. There are a rare few in this world with the power to touch the hearts of all those they meet, but Marc was one of them. He'd been my first friend in Trollus, and not a day went by that I wasn't stricken with an anguish so intense it stole my breath. For Marc. And for everyone else who'd fallen. — Danielle L. Jensen

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger. — Jeane Kirkpatrick